Principal Engineer Software (Backend)

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Backend Engineer to lead and grow development teams working on Prisma Cloud and Cortex Cloud, Palo Alto Networks leading platforms for cloud security and security operations. We are looking for candidates with a can-do attitude, who are passionate about complex problems and thrive on bringing value to thousands of customers.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end backend development of features and components across their entire life cycle (design, develop, test, deploy, maintain)
• Work closely with peers across different geo teams and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product
• Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions
• Production oriented approach with providing real time mitigation and solutions to production issues

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 10+ years of software engineering experience, including development of a scalable server-side application
• Extensive hands-on programming skills in Go, Java and/or Python
• Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g. understanding of lock-free data structures, bloom filters, minimal perfect hashing, consistent hashing etc)
• Proven Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP / AWS / Azure)
• Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, Serverless, etc)
• Experience with big-data architectures (using Kafka, Splunk, Flink, etc)
• Experience with distributed computing (understand implications of CAP theorem, master election, brain split problem) and/or distributed DB/KVP (BigQuery, Elastic Search, Kafka and SingleStore)
• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an agile and dynamic environment
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra
• Familiarity with Cyber Technologies, Information Security, and Software Security is plus

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